Hidden

AMEE BROUMAND

in the mind’s core, a waterfall—(a strange thing,a thing ill-designed to assuage fear— (symbols have an inner life that defies translation; they cannot dissolveinto words— the water roars, cloaking what cannot be spoken; here I stop, here I cantraverseno further—here the silence freezes me. Here I must wait—

Amee Broumand is an Iranian American poet from the Pacific Northwest. She has a background in classic literature, logic, philosophy, and photography.